Nasmyth, Alexander
Related Category: European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies
(nā´smĭth), 1758–1840, Scottish landscape and portrait painter. His
Stirling Castle (National Gall., London) is a good example of his simple, picturesque Scottish scenes. His portrait of Robert Burns is in the National Gallery of Edinburgh. His son and pupil,
Patrick Nasmyth, 1787–1831, was a celebrated landscapist. His
At Penshurst, Kent is in the Metropolitan Museum.
